Firefly House

Firefly House and its owner Russell Davis are CON ARTISTS! I paid for a vintage desk chair from Firefly House that I never received. They seemed legitimate at first (with a website and Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest accounts). My only communications were with Russell. He was very responsive at first. We agreed that restorations to the chair would be done before it was sent to me (in the US) from the UK.
I made my payment via Paypal, which had a 45-​day window to open a dispute. After that, you’re out of luck. As the end of the window approached, Russell was slower to respond and gave me the run-​around about being out of town, finally the work on the chair was complete, picking up and packaging the chair, preparing it for customs, sending the tracking number, etc. He knew exactly what to say and when. I didn’t get suspicious until it was too late. Exactly at the 45-​day mark, all his communications stopped.
Russell is a fraud. I’ve reported Russell to the FBI’s Internet Crime Center and hopefully Paypal will add him to their blacklist. The email addresses they used were:


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